Source code must be converted into machine language by compilers or assemblers ahead of time or by interpreters at the time the program is run. See programming language and source code editor.

At the lowest level, there’s machine code and assembly, while higher-level languages like C and Python aim to be more human-readable. However, the natural world has source code too, in the form ...

To celebrate the 40th anniversary of CP/M, the Computer History Museum has released a package containing early source code for several ... Since it was on an Intel machine, CP/M was written ...